Katy Rodriguez Wimberly
Board Member, 2022
California State University, San Bernardino
Dr. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at CSU San Bernardino, with expertise in Near-Field Cosmology and galaxy evolution particularly in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. Alongside astrophysics, Katy is also passionate about mentorship — she is Director of Mentorship for the Cal–Bridge Program, a CSU-UC STEM scholarship program, where her aim is to normalize a holistic approach to academic success and strengthen marginalized communities. Katy, a SoCal native, first attended Mt. San Antonio College, then earned her Physics B.S from CSU Long Beach, her Physics Ph.D. from UC Irvine and completed a postdoc at UC Riverside, where she was an NSF MPS Ascend Fellow. Aside from work, Katy loves slightly contradictory things like hiking and binging anime, strength training and gardening, and Disneyland and rock-climbing (though her 2 young kids make a lot of that hard).
